Francés Carrós Pardo de la Casta, un humanista para el Cancionero general

Abstract

The present study focuses on the poetry of Francés Carrós Pardo de la Casta, a Valencian author whose poem “Consuelo de amor”, first published in the Cancionero general of 1511, can be interpreted in the light of the doctrine of Medieval humanism. The poem, composed in Castilian, can be read, in fact, as a lyrical version of the Regoneixença e moral consideració sobre los vicis e forces d´amor, a second work by Carrós written in Catalan Medieval prose, that proposes a digression about dangers of human love, from the perspective of a laic moralism that points out the debt to Dante and, above all, to Petrarch. Like the Petrarch of the Trionfi and the Canzoniere, both texts emphasize the human effects of love and make a particular use of the allegory, not only didactic but also poetic and literary.